Dorner reward prompts calls, but still no capture

San Bernardino County Sheriff deputies continue to search door-to-door along Willow Avenue in Big Bear for ex-LAPD fugitive Christopher Jordan Dorner Saturday February 9, 2013. Search conditions improved Saturday as skies cleared in the area after a heavy winter storm dropped over a foot of snow in the mountain community Friday. (Will Lester/Staff Photographer) (WILL LESTER)

The $1 million reward offered for the capture of fugitive Christopher Dorner sparked phone tips throughout the night to the Los Angeles Police Department, but none of the tips have led to an arrest, police said Monday morning.

The search for the fired LAPD officer enters its second week today, with authorities across Southern California still looking for the man.

He did not specify the nature of the calls, or how many were received.

Los Angeles officials announced the reward Sunday.

The city and county of Riverside each plan to contribute $100,000 toward the reward this week.
Riverside police said officers received no calls regarding Dorner, or even false sightings. San Bernardino County sheriff's dispatchers had not received any calls on the case either.

Los Angeles police did come to Northridge on Sunday afternoon on what turned out to be a false sighting at a Lowe's store. Police received a call of the sighting at 3:35 p.m., cordoned off the area and checked customers one by one. But there was no sign of Dorner.

"It was a big zero," Villanueva said. "It took about three hours for that whole process."

Dorner is wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of an Irvine couple and Riverside police Officer Michael Crain, a Redlands High School graduate.

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In his lengthy manifesto released last week on Facebook, Dorner said he is purposely targeting police officers and their families as revenge for being unjustly fired from the LAPD five years ago.